Exercise 14 - Revision of All Articles
Article Mix 3

Article Mix 3

Gap-fill exercise

Supply a/an, the or X (for zero article).
I. One morning, in fall of 1880, middle-aged woman accompanied by young girl of eighteen, presented herself at clerk's desk of principal hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and made inquiry as to whether there was anything about place that she could do.
II. Something in stillness with which he listened to her made her give glance through her eyelashes. There was curious expression in his eyes. It was as if he were gravely listening to sound that came from a long way off.
III. While Lord Henry sat dreaming on these things, knock came to door, and his valet entered, and reminded him it was time to dress for dinner. He got up and looked into street. sun had smitten into scarlet gold upper windows of houses opposite. The panes glowed like plates of heated metal. sky above was like faded rose.
IV. He made no more friends at new school than he had at old, but it was small quiet place with teacher for every ten boys and so rigidly disciplined that there was no fighting or bullying. students who wished to be left along were permitted to go their own way as long as they kept their marks up to respectable standard and broke none of school rules.
What Michael's mother had not realized was that adjoining school grounds there was hill with tow to which entire school body was led by physical education teachers four times week to ski. For first time in his life, Michael began to feel exhilaration of grace and speed and soon became so daring skier he had to be warned time and time again to slow down. When coach of school team suggested that he write letter to Michael's mother explaining that Michael could become star of team, Michael shook his head obdurately and forbade him to communicate with his mother.
V. It was almost dark, Porsche humming along like jewelled clock, when he reached what he recognized as approach to Green Hollow. car radio was turned on and symphony orchestra somewhere in New England was playing " Ride of Valkyries". He pressed down on accelerator, smiling. good old Wagner, he thought, he wrote automobile music before they ever invented automobile. He was going eighty-five miles hour when he saw flashing lights of police car, but then he would have to go right through town of Green Hollow and not come back, so he slowed down, like respectable citizen. When police car came up close, its siren wailing, he pulled over to side of road.